Next Friday on the University of Kansas campus, you might see what looks like a mini craft market near the bronze Jayhawk statues outside the Kansas Union. It’s called Jayhawk Fridays, and it’s a new way for small businesses to connect with students on campus. Program director Mikayla Leader with KU Memorial Unions said it will normally happen on the first Friday of each month, and if you’re a vendor of ...
In his decades of living in East Lawrence, Tony Peterson says, a lot has changed, but “the Yart Sale has always been one of the constants.” “I’m not even sure how long ago it started,” he says. It’s one of those ad-hoc, organic neighborhood things, part garage sale, part gallery, part “unofficial neighborhood party,” and never the same from one year to the next. This year’s is on Saturday ...
As Lawrence-Douglas County Fire Medical prepares to add a new station in northwest Lawrence, Station 6, the department's stats show that its two existing stations on the west side are responding to fewer calls than some stations farther east. But that may not be an issue for Station 6, because LDCFM has said that what matters, and what Station 6 is trying to improve, is where the department can get to in four ...
“Where’s my pencil?” says Deb Madden at Tuesday’s rehearsal for Vintage Players, Theatre Lawrence’s senior theater program. She’s just come into the auditorium, running late and a little frazzled. “Do you have a pencil?” Director Bruce Douglas doesn’t have one. Nobody in the audience does. Oh, but wait – they’re in her hair! She pulls one out and offers it to him. “Would you like a ...
You yourself could be the canvas for the artwork that Tim Hossler and Lizzy Arnold are creating for the 2026 FIFA World Cup. Hossler, a University of Kansas design professor, and Arnold, the graphic designer for the KU School of Architecture and Design, are among the artists being featured in the City of Lawrence's soccer-themed Unmistakable Public Art Exhibition this summer. But rather than sculpting or ...
In the Dole Institute of Politics’ collections are thousands of films and tapes from throughout Sen. Bob Dole’s career – records that, for all we know, might only have a couple of plays left in them. They’re in all kinds of formats, said senior archivist Sarah Gard – from cassette tapes to 1-inch and 2-inch film, from VHS to professional standards like Betacam. And they’re from all throughout ...